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[schmerica]

This is actually a quite fascinating topic -- the responses I've seen over at prillalar and musesfool, whom I'm copying this from, are interesting. So.

What kind of work is my name -- Pearl-o -- associated with? What kind of assumptions do you make about a piece of writing, fiction or non, if you see my name on it?

Nota bene: This is emphatically NOT an attempt to fish for compliments. I'm not trying to get judgements on the quality of my work, but rather about its other characteristics.

For example, if you were given the name of an actor, that might make you think of a certain genre of film he or she is often in or a type of character.

What is Pearl-o brand writing?

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

dude! do mine and I'll do yours...

::thinks about withholding compliments::

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You are so shameless.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Utterly.

I notice you are too.

I think of Pearl-o brand stories as restrained and subtle, well-crafted and subtexty. Focused on how little things inform larger ones.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Shameless and restrained. I am a bundle of contradictions!

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

*YOU* are shameless. Your prose is restrained. *g*

[yay4pikas.livejournal.com]

Character-driven porn or bring-your-own-subtext.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's all either one way or the other, I guess.

[linabean.livejournal.com]

I love that icon very, very, very, very much.

(quiet squeeeeee for both Danny and Josh Charles)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude! Doesn't it rock? I was thinking about how I needed a nice new icon for him, because I just had the sucky one I made, and then I went onto AIM and scrunchy gave me this one completely out of the blue.

Obviously I have gained the power to control the future with my thoughts. I will try to use the power wisely.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Adorable, angsty pretty boys who end up having a nice happy ending after being cute and adorable and dorky and angsty.

And sometimes cheerleading.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*ponders* I don't think I've ever done angsty adorable cheerleading boys, actually.

[moonwhip.livejournal.com]

Like dark chocolate, often. Delicious but not always sweet; or sweet with an aftertaste. Realistic treatment of emotion, even in happyfic -- stories that don't ignore the consequences of the events within them. Sandwiches! Um. Sorry, got distracted. To sum up: I think of your stories as sharp, rich, interesting, and never quite as long as I hope they'll be.

And hot! Cannot forget hot.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting -- that's lovely description, Kate.

(But you forgot the pudding!)

[linabean.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether I should re-read your stories that I haven't read in a while, or just go with a vague impression.

I'm going with the vague impression:

Short and insightful. Emotionally honest.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I think vague impression is closer to the intention of the questions, anyway. And is also less like a bunch of work.

[digitalwave]

They are stories filled with characters so real and sharply drawn that you ache when they ache, smile when they're happy. While your stories have a wonderful realism, there is also always a dreamlike quality to them as well. They are also stories I've read, over and over agian and have never tired of them.

[afrai.livejournal.com]

Stories that I go into carefully, sideways, because I know if you want to you'll make the characters all Sad and I will like it. Prose that I'm not sure I fully understand, but I enjoy anyway. Um. A lot of gooshy, but sometimes with knives in it, which makes one nervous because you don't put huge HERE BE KNIVES WATCH OUT signs all over your fic like some people do; the knives just come out at one from nowhere. Subtlety.

Lots of full sentences with subjects and predicates, which make me happy.

I like this meme. I ought to do it on my LJ for my favouritest writers some time.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Wow. You're very good at this. I would love to see you do this in your lj, just because it would be so entertaining.